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At least two people are dead and hundreds have been rescued after catastrophic flooding hit the Texas Hill Country — the same corridor that lost Camp Mystic children in a similar deluge a few weeks ago. State emergency crews have deployed high-water vehicles across Uvalde and Kerr counties, and low-water crossings are still filling faster than they can be closed.

Governor Greg Abbott declared a state emergency and requested federal cost-sharing, and the National Weather Service warned that additional rainfall this week could compound the ground saturation across the entire watershed. Hydrologists are already pointing to a compressed recovery window that Camp Mystic families have described in painful public terms.

Canadian wildfire smoke has triggered air-quality alerts across major US cities as plumes reach New York, Chicago, and Minneapolis. Ontario wildfires are the primary contributor, and forecasters expect the smoke to linger across the Great Lakes region for the rest of the week.

Public health authorities issued outdoor exercise warnings and urged vulnerable populations to use N95 masks, with school district athletic directors already canceling summer practices. Fire officials in three provinces are asking Washington for additional air-tanker capacity while the wind pattern holds.

Taco Bell withdrew lettuce from its menu after Michigan officials tied the growing cyclospora outbreak to a specific supplier, in the sharpest fast-food response so far to the country's largest parasitic infection in years. Chain says the pull is nationwide, even where the affected batches did not ship.

Michigan health authorities confirmed the produce link after epidemiologists traced clusters across Michigan and Ohio to shared distribution lines. FDA has expanded its inspection net to the supplier's other retail customers, and 2026 has now become the worst year for reported cyclospora cases on record.

The Manchester mayor is set to take power following Keir Starmer's dramatic political downfall, promising a new government that will "fix things politics has neglected." Supporters credit his brand of northern, city-first politics with rebuilding trust, though critics openly question whether his so-called "Manchesterism" can really scale up to govern the entire country.

Japan's parliament passed a law preserving male-only succession for the shrinking imperial family, allowing male distant relatives over the age of 15 to be adopted back into the royal line. The measure keeps the long-standing ban on female emperors firmly intact, drawing sharp criticism from reform advocates who had pushed for years to open the throne to women.

Beijing branded new US visa restrictions "discriminatory" and vowed swift retaliation, escalating tensions just a day after President Trump accused China of meddling in American elections. Officials warned they could impose countermeasures against US citizens and firms operating in the country if the curbs are not rolled back soon.

House Republicans pushed a $95 billion Iran war package past its first hurdle, teeing up a major fight over the scale, cost, and legality of the rapidly widening campaign. The measure would bankroll expanded operations across the region even as lawmakers on both sides spar over war powers, oversight, and the growing risk of a far deeper US commitment.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for a global crackdown on far-left political violence and asked partner nations to convene on shared enforcement standards. Move formalizes a State Department framing that had been developing throughout the year.

Michigan state agencies issued key permits for the controversial Line 5 tunnel through the Straits of Mackinac, concluding that project benefits outweigh drawbacks tied to Native American burial sites and wetlands. Litigation was filed within hours by tribal governments and environmental groups.

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Analysts are raising concerns about the prospect of global olive-oil supplies swinging dramatically from one season to the next as European heat and drought reshape harvests. Spain's crop remains the swing factor, and traders are already pricing volatility into 2027 forwards.

The year's largest Indian listing pulled in roughly $31 billion in orders, powered by an institutional frenzy even as equities elsewhere sold off sharply. Foreign investors also warmed to Indian government bonds amid the broader equity jitters, signaling that global money managers still see the country as a rare bright spot.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the Trump administration's rollback of CFPB rules and enforcement has cost Americans up to $26.5 billion so far. Number is drawn from projected lost-refund and fee-relief estimates across every category the bureau had been pursuing before the pull-back.

Starship triggered a last-moment abort just before liftoff on its 13th test flight, after several of its 33 engines failed to start correctly during the ignition sequence. Elon Musk said the towering rocket will likely try again early next week, and the company's stock slipped on the delay as investors weighed another setback in the ambitious program.

European regulators ordered Google to share search data with rivals and open its Android system to competing AI companies in a landmark antitrust decision. The sweeping remedy could reshape how AI assistants reach billions of users across the continent's smartphones, and it may set a global template for reining in dominant tech platforms.

A new prostate-cancer trial testing focal therapy — targeting only the tumor rather than the whole gland — showed fewer side effects than the standard treatment approach. Trial read-through may reshape how urologists discuss standard-of-care trade-offs with patients.

Jackson Suber leads the Open Championship after a surprise opening round that shook up projected leaderboards. Round included plenty of "first Open" nervy moments from the leading pack, with Bryson DeChambeau and Rory McIlroy landing well within striking distance.

Francisco Alvarez homered twice as the Mets won under hazy conditions from the Canadian wildfire smoke that reached New York this week. The team's medical staff added N95 protocols and postponed batting-practice segments.

Giannis Antetokounmpo says he is hungry to chase a championship in his new Miami setup, closing questions about post-trade motivation. His introductory press conference laid out both a training-camp arrival plan and Erik Spoelstra's early rotation thinking.

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Mary Jo Campbell, the mother of Kris Jenner and grandmother to the Kardashian-Jenner siblings, has died at 91. The family statement described a peaceful passing and a private memorial service in California later this month.

Patricia Lockwood won this year's Gabe Hudson Prize for comic fiction with her novel "Will There Ever Be Another You." Prize is one of the fastest-rising literary honors in the US and skews toward younger voices in the form.

Kit Connor and Joe Locke close out the beloved Netflix adaptation with a feature film, and the pair say the project will "forever be important" to them and their fans. The movie brings Alice Oseman's hugely popular series to a heartfelt conclusion, capping a run that turned a webcomic into a cultural touchstone for a generation.

What it is: Michigan state agencies issued key permits for Enbridge's Line 5 tunnel project, which would run oil through a new bore beneath the Straits of Mackinac. Approval clears one of the last big procedural obstacles for a project that has been debated for nearly a decade.

The detail: Line 5 currently runs on the lake bed of the Straits and carries roughly 540,000 barrels per day of light crude and natural-gas liquids. Enbridge proposes replacing the exposed pipeline with a concrete-lined tunnel drilled well below the lake bed, which the company argues eliminates the spill risk. Tribal governments and environmental groups filed litigation within hours, citing Anishinaabe treaty rights, wetlands harm, and the disturbance of documented Native American burial sites near the north-shore access point.

A short history: Line 5 has carried oil across the Straits since 1953, and the current pipeline is older than most of the infrastructure it competes with. The tunnel proposal emerged after an anchor-strike incident in 2018 that dented the pipeline and reopened the debate about whether the segment should be replaced or shut down entirely.

Why it matters: The Straits carry roughly one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water, and a Line 5 rupture would land in a section of the Great Lakes system that has almost no engineered spill response. Approving the tunnel effectively locks in oil transport under the lakes for the multi-decade lifetime of the new bore, and it sets a precedent for how other pipeline-in-water infrastructure decisions get made.

What to watch: Watch the tribal court filings — treaty-rights litigation moves through a different jurisdictional path than the state permit challenges, and the timeline stretches into 2027. Watch construction-schedule announcements from Enbridge, which will shape whether the tunnel actually gets built inside the political window. And watch whether any of the surrounding states join Michigan's regulatory posture or file conflicting rulings on downstream sections.

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